Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Were the Founding Fathers Democratic Reformers?

According to Zinn, the Founding Fathers were not democratic reformers. I agree with that opinion. The fifty-five men who contributed to the Constitution were mostly men of wealth and conservative minded. Slaves, indentured servant, women, and men without property were not represented in the Constitution. The Constitution was "coincidentally" very beneficial to the Founding Fathers. They favored a strong central government and wanted to make barriers in the Constitution as strong as they could to protect themselves against the people lower in social standards than them. The Convention was unanimous in believing that democratic government was to be favored and fought. What i have read makes me believe that the Founding Fathers were not democratic reformers.